Random Memories

Sometimes when I am working very concentrated, I suddenly, out of the blue,
have to think about something that I did a long time ago. I call these
event Random Memories, because it
is if my mind generates some random memory from the past. Maybe, as an
alternative, I could also call them Spontaneous Memories. They
are a form of what, in scientific literature is called
involuntary
(autobiographical) memory.
Below a summary of these kind of random memories is given, starting
from October 29, 1999. The listing below does not list all of them.
Some are too short, that I feel I should not count them. And it also
seems that these kind of memories are much like dreams: they are
easily forgotten, and then impossible to recall.

June 4, 2007 I discovered several people
with the similar experiences.

18th at 16:17 while browsing files:
Getting something from a grab-bag (lucky dip) at some
place (possibly a shop) in Woerden where I went together
with my mother. It was for the occasion of "Sinterklaas"
(the Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus) around this
time of the year somewhere in the late sixties.

29th at 15:59 while programming:
Mari-Anne Visser-de Rijst.

30th at 10:57 while debugging:
Square dancing during a gymnatics camp around 1970.

2nd at 10:15 while debugging:
Going on a children's quest in Woerden. Late sixties.

3rd at 15:12 while programming:
Wedding party of one of my cousins, in a restaurant near a place
where I also stayed during a boy-scouts camp. (Near Amersfoort??)
Around 1970. I vaguely remember there was an old bunker left over from
World War II nearby the restaurant.

6th at 15:00 while sitting in our living room:
Going on a picknick in a park in Birmingham with some frends.
June 1990.

12th at 14:43 while debugging:
An open area on Fragrence Hill near Beijing where there used to be
some kind of temple.
During our honeymoon in November 1993.

17th around 8:05 while driving:
Having breakfast in a pub along the road to London.
Summer 1979.

1th at 14:32 while editting some warning message:
Some building in Woerden
where I received some vacination. Late sixties.

4th at 13:23 while looking at some code:
Elementairy school "De Kring" in Woerden which I attended
from 1969 till 1973.

6th at 15:09 while rubbing my eyes:
Waiting near somebodies home in Woerden. Early eighties.

6th at 16:45 while entering some data:
A Christian bookshop at the Dutch "Youth with a Mission"
headquarters at the end of the summer of 1992.

8th at 10:56 while eating an apple and studying some code:
Driving through Belgium to Berdorf in Luxumburg. We came in a city
where there were strange road markings, as if the roads were also
part of a racing circuit.
Summer of 1969

25th at 15:04 while programming:
Almost getting an accident with a wood level milling-machine,
while working with a cousin in the late seventies.

25th at 16:36 while programming:
Watching to a program finding lines in a capture image during
a TarT festival at the University of Twente.(These were by far not the only of this day.)

27th at 14:31 while programming:
An exhibition about the Apollo space flights and the Saturn V rocket
somewhere here in the Netherlands (a zoo?) that I attended
together with my father(?).
Late sixties, early seventies.
(I cannot remember having thought about this in the past ten years.)

29th at 11:21 while driving to the city center:
Selling Christmas decorations with the boy-scouts in December.
An older boy was driving a carrier cycle, and we were running
from door to door, asking the people if they wanted to buy one.
Around 1970.

2nd at 3:25 while writing a report:
Being trapped in the basement of a house that was under constructions.
This was in the late sixties. I had been ill and was allowed to play outside
while still staying home. A few streets from our house a new house was being
constructed. I walked around and felt in the basement. Luckly, I was able
to place a piece of wood in a corner and use it as a stepping stone to
climb out of the basement.

Lately, I have many random memories while reading together
with Annabel before she goes to bed.

5th at 11:57 while writing a report:
playing games with our primairy school in a park near our school close to
the summer school holidays. Around 1970.

6th at 21:00 while preparing some bread for tomorrow:
Chicago Zoo. November 1987.

8th at 12:39 while looking at some log file:
Shop in Estes Parks where we got some drinks and such.
August 1997.

11th at 18:04 while vacum cleaning:
Having a small holiday trip
with a friend of my mother in Alkmaar. Late sixties.

15th at 15:42 while looking at some code:
The EASC conference in July 1987.

16th at 15:37 while attending a team meeting:
A cafeteria at the Hannover Messe. Summer 1997.

23rd at 11:32 while testing a program:
The "tournooysveld" shopping center in Woerden, while
old trades were demonstrated. Early seventies.

27th at 10:16 while entering some time sheet:
Visiting the Beijing Zoo with Annabel
and Xiao Bing (aka Shirley Icecream) in
August 1996.

11th at 16:04 while debugging:
Somewhere along the road in a forest. It stopped raining, but there is still some 'rain'.
Someone (my father?) expains that this are drops falling from the leaves, and that it will
stop soon. Late sixties, early seventies.